I completed my undergraduate studies in Economics at Boğaziçi University, my master’s degree in Ethnomusicology at ITU MIAM, and my PhD in Ethnomusicology at the Department of Music, GSAS, New York University. My academic research focuses on gender in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey (köçeklik), music and dance, the history of sound and noise, and the musics of the Ottoman diaspora in America (1890–1970). Over the years, I have received research and merit fellowships from institutions including the Social Science Research Council, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and New York University.

As an artist and composer, I have presented installations, film scores, theatre music, and contemporary art projects at major events such as the Istanbul Biennial, the Mardin Biennial, the Istanbul Film Festival, and the Istanbul Theatre Festival. In 2025, I was invited to the SACO Biennial in Chile to produce a sound sculpture. My score for the film Yuva (which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2018) earned the “Best Original Film Score” award at the 30th Ankara International Film Festival in 2019. I am currently a faculty member in the Department of Media and Visual Arts at Koç University.